The Rise of the Robots - Clio

The people who are selling these machines want them to augment human intelligence, not replace it #ROSS #LegalTech https://t.co/TfcQ4Fm9mf With news that ROSS, the world's first AI lawyer, built upon IBM's Watson was'hired' by law firm Baker & Hostetler, there was much weeping and gnashing of teeth by organic, flesh-and-bone lawyers. They were then summarily rounded up by their new machine overlords and sealed in pods where their bioelectric energy was harnessed and used to power the very computers that now subjugated them. But for all the alarm-raising over the rise of AI and what it means for tomorrow's legal professionals, does machine intelligence pose a legitimate threat to the practice of law by human beings? Will clients in the near future be represented in court by Lawbot 3000?